Toronto Will (@torontowill.bsky.social)

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 10:50 UTC

“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity”

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

> This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe.

Today’s must-read

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 12:25 UTC

Terminator got so many things wrong. Time for a reboot. It’s not just one SkyNet, it’s 20 different competitor versions, all of which are dumb AF. Microsoft sends a Clippy back in time to spy. Google sends back a chef to cook rocks and glue pizza. Tesla sends back a guy in a robot suit to dance.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

On just about any other platform I'd be terrified what liking a post with these tags would do to my algorithm, but such is the liberty of only using the "following" tab. #owgodwhydidshedivorceme

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 03:51 UTC

Welcome. You arrived for, without exaggeration, the most unpleasant weather we’ve had for months.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

WTAF. Yeah the image is weird and creepy and bizarre and why please just stop, but I'm even more stuck on the text of the message: "I'm awake and ready to surf and celebrate you". Humans don't talk like this!

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 05:14 UTC

My favourite part is him quoting this other person as saying, "nobody's ever asked me that question". He thinks that means, "because it's such a smart and perceptive observation", when really it's the cashier's response if you went to Wendy's and asked, "where do you keep the plutonium?"

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

🤢🤮

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

I've been bamboozled, nice work Apple. Below is my favourite photo taken with a 14 Pro in portrait mode, but to me it's obvious that the blur is faked, it's too harsh and sudden around the edges and doesn't map well to the actual 3D space. In your photo the blur is graded in really plausibly.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 02:31 UTC

What kinda glass you got? That looks too good for the phony background blur "portrait" mode on phones, that looks like a real lens with an aperture the size of a baseball. But if it is a phone I'm reluctantly impressed, and still curious to know.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

I actually thought it pivoted well--having been worried how they were going to stretch it into 10 eps given the pace things were moving--but those first 4 or 5 eps are certainly sharper in focus than what follows. "Nostalgia sweater" is fair, but I craved that. I was cold and it was warm.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

I was forgiving to early seasons because they were ambitious with serialized story telling in a way that upped the degree of difficulty. Plus all the showrunner problems behind the scenes. But they never quite figured it out. Then Picard S3 snuck in and declared, "it's not that hard!"

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

I found the show frustrating because it was incredible in so many ways (production value especially, top to bottom, plus the talented cast) but then the writing was just never near the same level. S5 improves in some ways, but is still really scattered in what it’s going for.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

When was he anything less than

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 21, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

There’s just no end to the mindless jamming of “AI” into products that don’t need or benefit from it, and in many cases are actively harmed by it. People care about privacy and security with a video call app far more than whatever the hell this is supposed to do.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 21, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

This is savage. And spectacular. If I try to muster some sympathy for Roose, I think he is THE target of the con, with spear phish-like precision. No need to win over the public, just win over Roose and Swisher and they'll do the rest. It's a play written for an audience of two.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 19, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

When I was a teen I thought colognes were manly, and a sign of maturity (and a potent tool of seduction -- it was also the heyday of Axe body spray). The great con is it's the opposite, I think teen boys are basically the whole market, and also it's a girl repellent, the stench is nauseating.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

In looking this up I stumbled into the discovery that my pet insurer is 39.8% shorted. So fortunately my cat is healthy, I guess?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

1.1% of market cap. Shorting is perilous at the best of times, and it's playing with fire on a bubble that could burst tomorrow or 3 years from now. Also Nvidia still has a core business without AI. The big upside is with companies that will go bankrupt. TSLA short interest is 3.9%.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

I'm so eager for this hype cycle to end, I'm tired of being fire hosed in the face with "AI" bullshit, and it displacing or ruining the things I actually want. But whereas the crypto bubble was somewhat well contained, the AI bubble has enveloped everything. It's going to be ugly when it pops.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

Even more embarrassing that he's saying that about SAMUEL ALITO, who is so shamelessly biased towards a particular political viewpoint that his decisions can be predicted with virtually 100% accuracy.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 18, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

Such an embarrassingly circular argument for an "expert" scholar. It's "hard to believe" that Alito wasn't involved in conduct that gives the appearance of bias. So then there is an appearance of bias? No! I can't believe he would've done something that creates the appearance of bias.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 06:13 UTC

I'm still catching up on X-Men '92 to '96 (after watching the first couple episodes of '97 and realizing I was missing out on quite a lot of backstory). It's much more of a kids' show, but has some great moments. Wolverine's quipping is legendary.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 14, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

I think it’s a choice to funnel their new scripted content to streaming (Disney+). They still make lots of “TV”. I’d say they don’t know how to make network TV profitable any more, except D+ isn’t profitable, either. Only difference is D+ shows are *allowed* to lose money.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 09, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

Fast forward to Bennett drunk on power, posting videos recommending the investigation of all his enemies.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Don’t know what they said, but I’ll take it as an affirmation of past-me’s sound judgment.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 03, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

"The more genetically similar people are, the more traits they have in common", this and more in research dispatches from 1920.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 02, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

Luigi Mario himself

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] May 01, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

The bugs created by the patch are worse than the bugs fixed by the patch -- I can relate. But then I'm not programming a lending protocol with irreversible transactions.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 23:53 UTC

I miss what the AV Club used to be. Which is maybe too micro for this question, but it represented something. A like-minded community that formed within the walls of a specific website, in a way that just doesn't happen much anymore. Things are funneled to the big platforms with the algo feeds.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

For me it's more things I miss the *absence* of, like the SEO-baiting pages that now flood search results, and force you to scroll 12 paragraphs to find the title of the article is a lie. On the whole things have gotten a lot better. Email clients, especially. And UIs are way more polished.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

Non-compete, I think. Twitter was a loophole.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

Don't forget Glenn Beck. Who was a BIG deal with his own primetime slot, and then fell off a cliff basically within seconds of leaving Fox News. He's so big of an afterthought that nobody thinks of him at all.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 21:46 UTC

@zitron.bsky.social Thought you might be interested in this -- reddit has started feeding me posts from r/windows and r/windows11, and it is fascinating how overwhelmingly hated Microsoft's new "AI" features are, even among what you'd expect is a pro-Microsoft audience.
reddit.com/r/windows/co...

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

FROM MY MOUTH TO BEN'S EAR'S 🙏

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

But who gets that power instead? It's the executive branch who engaged in the abuses of power (and who appointed the morally corrupt justices), and the legislative branch equally refused their chance to hold Trump accountable, despite being the direct target of the violent mob he incited.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 19, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

But what makes it a felony is the falsification of the financial documents *in service of* another predicate crime, i.e. election misfeasance. So it is within the realm of what's at issue. I described it as "relatively minor" in the sense of likely legal consequences. Morally, it's reprehensible.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 19, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

When Microsoft pumps this trash into all its services, I sort of get it, because they own the servers, their worst case scenario if it doesn't work is moving money from their right pocket to their left pocket. But Meta's gotta actually pay for this, right?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

I wonder what the chances are that Trump, in defending against a relatively minor crime (that'll likely just result in probation), manages to commit a far more serious crime (like jury or witness tampering). That seems like the screenwriter's ending.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

I wonder if this is the Bored Apes moment for the AI hype bubble. The thing that is just so oppressively stupid that people start to reflexively vomit out the hype that’s been stuffed down their throat.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 02:40 UTC

Human artists are not exactly expensive, whereas image-generating LLMs are a cash furnace. There are lots of tools that are free to use right now, but only because they're operating at a loss.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

The Sorcerer. And having now watched it (last night), these 3 reviews are indeed a perfect summary. Must see movie, but not for the feint of heart.

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